Midnight Bowling

Midnight Bowling
Developer(s)	Gameloft
Publisher(s)	Gameloft
Platform(s)	WiiWare
Release date(s)	JP September 2, 2008 NA October 6, 2008 EU October 10, 2008
Genre(s)	Sports, Bowling
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multiplayer (4)
Input methods	Wii Remote
Compatibility	5 Perfect
GameIDs	WB8EGL, WB8PGL, WB8JGL
See also...	Dolphin Forum thread Open Issues Search Google Search Wikipedia

Plunge directly into the trendy and electric atmosphere of Midnight Bowling! With awesome playing sensations, prepare for ultra-fun gaming thanks to a new physics engine that lets you control your throws precisely and easily with your Wii Remote and make spectacular spins that will impress your opponents! Face up to 3 friends in the fun Party mode where your playing abilities will be put to the test! Whatever your level, launch yourself into the immersive career mode where you will play in the trendiest bowling spots of the planet against charismatic characters that will give you a run for your money! The game is part of Gameloft's Midnight series which also includes Midnight Pool.

Problems

Menu graphics corruption

The game has issues with the screen flashing and bouncing as well as low FPS. Really hard to play, no known fix currrently.
As of the Dolphin 4.0 release, the game can now be played without any XFB emulation. This will however cause severe corruption in the game menus. The screen will flicker rapidly. Enabling Virtual XFB within the menus will eliminate the problem however in game, this will cause the problem seen in the menu screens and XFB emulation then has to disabled to prevent this issue occuring in-game. It would be more advisable just to tolerate the flickering menus than switch XFB emulation on and off during game as it will likely crash Dolphin.

Low FPS

Game FPS drops massively when the game is calculating physics. The game is playable but suffers a HUGE slowdown just before the bowling ball hits the pins. This also occurs when a CPU opponent is 'thinking'.

Configuration

This title does not need non-default settings to run properly.

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with Midnight Bowling since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

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2.0 (r5384)

Compatibility can be assumed to align with the indicated revisions. However, compatibility may extend to prior revisions or compatibility gaps may exist within ranges indicated as compatible due to limited testing. Please update as appropriate.

Testing

This title has been tested on the environments listed below:

Test Entries
Revision	OS	CPU	GPU	Result	Tester
4.0	Windows 7 x64	AMD Phenom II X4 975	AMD Radeon HD 7870	Can be played all the way through but suffers from severe slowdowns, menu's exhibit rapidly flashing screen glitches. In-game average 30FPS, 50VPS however, the game can slow down to 40% speed quite often.	Someone7272